Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. Bruce Lee More Quotes by Bruce Lee More Quotes From Bruce Lee Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion Bruce Lee inquiryunderstandingperception If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness. Bruce Lee rhythmlightdarkness An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. Bruce Lee advantagestudentsshould The highest art is no art. The best form is no form. Bruce Lee art-isformart How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement. Bruce Lee togetherphilosophyreality People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth. Bruce Lee growthtryingpeople Optimism is a faith that leads to success. Bruce Lee martial-arts-inspirationalmartial-artsoptimism Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be. Bruce Lee existentialmirrorsself Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. Bruce Lee positivitypowerdream A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself. Bruce Lee fightingartistdream As you think, you shall become Bruce Lee endurancethinking The possession of anything begins in the mind. Bruce Lee possessionmind Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected. Bruce Lee letting-gorunninglife The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is. Bruce Lee styleseriousmen The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge. Bruce Lee meanlyingart It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. Bruce Lee doeheartmen Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. Bruce Lee middle It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay. Bruce Lee claypiecesbroken Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain Bruce Lee painfightingpride Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up. Bruce Lee wake-updifferencesphilosophy
